Digestive_Biscuit
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
Like Wallace and Gromit but instead of cheese it’s biscuits.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I never knew about this. Is this the same gene which makes people like/dislike bitter foods?
Years ago at a place I worked at, food manufacturers, the R&D team did a taste workshop. 5 cups of flavours, salt, bitter, water, umami, sweet. The bitter one just tasted of water to me. They called it “bitter blind”
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Broccoli, Brussels sprouts are the two ones which come to mind.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I don’t think I’ve touched an ant since I was a kid.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 days ago:
Maybe an age thing? When I was a kid nobody cared untill be got an expensive new carpet. My mum still doesn’t care. I take my shoes off at the door and she says I can leave them on if I like.
- Comment on "Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account" 1 week ago:
And the parents thought it was ok to buy a toy like this for their child.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And mental health. When I was unemployed for quite some time when I was younger it’s a horrid hole to be in. The “why bother with anything” mentally easily takes over.
- Comment on Great Mug 4 weeks ago:
Sadly a lot of people’s beliefs don’t give a fuck about science.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing, that was an interesting read.
We are genetically built by the decisions our ancestors made. As far as I know everybody can eat cereal grain, that was a massive challenge for our ancestors who until then we’re meat eaters. I can eat dairy products, a lot of people from other areas cannot, like my wife who is from Asia.
Off topic, but I find it fascinating, animals create their own vitamin c but humans don’t. I read it’s from an evolutionary mutation where our genes for vit c got turned off.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 5 weeks ago:
As well as regional factors. They both grow in totally different environments.
- Comment on Evidence 5 weeks ago:
You worded that very well. I don’t like people calling out generations like this but struggle on making a well formed reply.
Also it’s odd that they lack the understanding that one day their generation will be the old one and they will be subject to blame. Unless people just stop doing it!
- Comment on I'm there! 5 weeks ago:
That sounds really good. Just sent the kids/family one to my wife.
There’s so much fun stuff to engage in with kids. I became a dad in my mid 30’s and now realise how much fun stuff there is out there, not just for kids, stuff I didn’t know about until I was a dad.
Organised mushroom hunts, forest walks, science activity centres, family friendly caves, ancient technology centres, so much more.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
And from what I have heard on science podcasts, the moon is, and has been, and still will be, moving away from the earth. Making the perfect solar eclipse only for a segment of the earth’s history.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 month ago:
I wonder if there were two buttons, one for the shock, and another which gives them something more rewarding. I wonder how fast or slow they give up on the more rewarding response because that too becomes boring. I suppose like a song that sounds great at first but you hate it after x times
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 month ago:
Vegetables are trying to kill us so we won’t eat them
- Comment on Introverts Rock 2 months ago:
That was the same for me. I didn’t realise I had high anxiety especially around people interaction. I just went with what people told me, that I’m introverted. It took me way too long to figure this out and I only did so because my anxiety was getting worse and about more things. Once I was on medication I realised holy shit, I needed this like 20 years ago!
I’m now able to join clubs, meet in large groups. But like you it’s now a choice. I generally do the social thing then leave or take some time out when batteries are low.
- Comment on Apartment blocks causing issues for UK fiber broadband 2 months ago:
That happened to me, but it’s a block in the town centre. Houses next door, full on broadband. Flat, nope. BT lines. Connection wasn’t very stable. I gave up on it and bought a 5G broadband hub. It works amazing.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 months ago:
He sits down in his old local pub and catches up with old mates after finally completing his journey. His mate Dave points out that he completely missed Africa. Off he goes again.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 2 months ago:
Would this be a star which wasn’t big enough and fizzled out into a big planet?
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 2 months ago:
Where’s the wasp table!?
- Comment on Not impressed 2 months ago:
That’s the big word I couldn’t remember. I didn’t know apples were the same but that really makes sense now.
- Comment on Not impressed 2 months ago:
I listened to a podcast recently about potatoes. The ones in Europe are all one species. They can’t grow variants from seeds because they have 4 chromosomes which means growing from seeds doesn’t give the same variant. They are basically clones. If a variant is lost it cannot be brought back, it’s gone for good.
I never knew how interesting potatoes are!
- Comment on Not impressed 2 months ago:
That was a well explained reply, thanks!
- Comment on Not impressed 2 months ago:
Or that we are quite literally apes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Thank you. I thought it was a NAS device. I was wondering what the hype was about.
- Comment on The moon 2 months ago:
Had similar many years ago. Was about 3am on a country road. Thought there was a cyclist. Why the fuck is there a cyclist in the middle of no where at this time of night. Slowed way down to a crawl as I as approached. It was a red reflector on a post outside a farm house.
- Comment on Catholic Priest Charged Over Calls to Bomb Mosques and Shoot Muslims in Neo-Nazi Chatrooms 3 months ago:
He’s probably happy to accept the sentence and get all this shoved behind him. I bet if the police had looked deeper at other online activities and his pc his term would be much longer.
- Comment on Catholic Priest Charged Over Calls to Bomb Mosques and Shoot Muslims in Neo-Nazi Chatrooms 3 months ago:
Are you lonely? Do you want a solution for loneliness? The answer is here. Join a neo-nazi online chatroom posing as a 16 year old boy. It makes sense, perfectly reasonable and not suspicious in any way what so ever.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 months ago:
AI-caterpillar effect.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 months ago:
I wish somebody did shove that old cunt into that suit like somebody trying to stuff a sleeping bag into the carry bag it can’t in. the trauma would be unreal.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 months ago:
They provided some insight to why they think MS didn’t comment. Then agreed with you. I don’t think they were defending MS.